"Man is more powerful than matter."
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"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter."
"Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear."
"Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right."
"Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia."
"I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you."
"Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time"
"Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?"
"Racing is a matter of spirit not strength."
"The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time."
"No matter where life takes me. Find me with a smile."
"At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection."
"No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike!"
"Life is not a matter of milestones, but moments."
"My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong."
"Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?"
"No man has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training"
"A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter."
"No matter how good you are, there's a lot of luck involved."
"Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings."